A United Nations expert on privacy has met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a London jail, saying that there are strong indications his privacy may have been breached while in the Ecuadorian embassy.

In late March Assange appealed to the UN that his privacy had been violated by the Ecuadorians.

The UN’s Special Rapporteur for Privacy, was scheduled to meet Assange at the embassy, but has since been held at the high security Belmarsh Prison in south-east London.

Ecuador has denied the allegations, and in-turn has accused Assange of using the embassy as a centre for spying.